Re: st: assigning codes to variables in bulk

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 12:14 PM 2/23/2006, you wrote:
> I am doing the following and fervently believe that there are more
> elegant, faster ways to do this. (I am working in Stata 8.2 but will be
> updating to 9 any day now.) Occupational history codes jobnum1-jobnum16
> each take one of 500 values from 003 to 909, and I am assigning a
> Nam-Powers status value (1 to 100) to each occupation held.
>
> forvalues i=1 to 16{
> gen jobstatus`i'=.
> }
how about (not tested)

forvalues i = 1 to 16 {
        recode jobnum`i' (003=86)(004=77)..., gen(jobstatus`'i')
}

or else something like

recode jobnum1 jobnum2...jobnum16 (003=86)..., gen(jobstatus1 jobstatus2...)

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